Jigoku Shoujo: Avenger Messenger

Artist Comment

There! At last the clock strikes 12 AM....*click*-entering Jigoku Tsushin~

Having learned the shading/drawing techniques & styles from lecturers in my university, I've decided to apply them
into my favourite anime [Jigoku Shoujo]. All thanks to them :) .

The features in this doujinshi are among the prominent ones known in this anime, in which I choose to use some of those
not yet been well used in this gallery. Besides, its style posed here are 'broken & hidden', that is, not fully
shown but still well understood by viewers. Some of the objects are deliberately arranged to project significances in
them . As you see, this picture introduces Enma Ai. The background indirectly portrays her characteristics. There
are:

upper left: flower = Enma's mystical
powers to deport sinners to hell.lower left: spinning wheel = Used by
Enma's grandma (her caretaker relative) in spinning treads centre above: voodoo straw doll = The
item sent by Enma to help avenge her client. Note-The cobweb in ray-like
form around the straw doll means the trap Enma's client will have to endure once the red tread is untied.centre below: lighted candle = By untying
the straw doll's red tread comes the compensation of submitting one's soul to hell, which locks his/her destiny in a
candle.around the cobweb: willow tree leaves =
Symbolizes loneliness.

The uniqueness I've created would be Enma's partially-shown face, in order to emphasize her eerie red eye(s). This is to
re-inforce her uncanniness within the innocentness of a child like Enma Ai. At the same time, the mist around the
background signifies the mysterious aura of such Hell Girl [Enma Ai].

Comments

A very well thought out piece kokuyu! I love how everything in your artwork is symbolic. The shading is quite well done
so that everything kind of blends together... Your calligraphy is also really good! I wish I could get mine to look that
good! XD (Though the "i" character seems a little scrunched at the bottom of the page there... ^_^') Keep up
the great work! :D

Nyaaaaaa Manda directed me here to your beautiful artwork! *____* SUGOI NEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I didn't know that you're
soooooooo talented in drawing! You should be on my watchlist, cause I can keep track of your beautiful works XD The
calligraphy writing is awesome! And I love your concept for the background, all the important things in the show ^^ And
you drew Enma Ai very well, especially her haunted big eyes ^^ Keep up the good work!